Many previous readers of the contents of, "Awaiting the Earthquake," has described it as, "the best and most understandable exposition of the book of Revelations ever; an amazing reading adventure..." All true believers in Jesus should actually read it. While all along beholding the wondrous grace of God and getting strengthened in faith, it, in easy to understand terms, resembles a flowing action film on wide screen playing out before you, with flashing and gripping images in high speed following one upon the other, portraying our world and life as it truly is in the eyes of God. It takes you away to a reality depicted by strange images, calling up deep and teasing questions; real life as we experience daily... but in the end shows that the cross is the axis around which for all people life and all of history revolves and brings forward God's awe-inspiring message as clear as daylight. On reading it readers will most probably for the first time understand the book and e.g. see:
* What the four horses of the apocalypse portray
* Who the antichrist is
* What should we do about the number of the beast, 666
* Who is the dragon, and the prostitute sitting wide legged on it
* What about Armageddon, where blood will reach up to the horses' bridles
* What does the New Jerusalem look like
* What about angels holding winds over the earth like ribbons, three slimy frogs coming from
the dragons mouth, a fiery dragon chasing a frail and humble woman, angels pouring out
bowls of wrath on earth, etc.? Yes, what will the last earthly day and life in heaven be like?
And many more about which believers wonder?
Because the symbolic language of Revelations, it portrays a world apparently totally strange to us and mostly verse by verse expositions of the book overflow readers with so much information from different angles that it is difficult to find one clear unifying or bird's eye view meaning in it. Awaiting the earthquake is not the author's own speculation, but based on true and solid principles of expositing Scripture and, without leaving any verse(s) unexplained, gives the reader such a unifying view, added to three keys in hand as to enable you to see how the many messages before hidden to the normal eye can be unlocked. These keys are:
* The use of symbolism and what it portrays-
* The Old Testament and how John used it to convey Jesus' unique message-
* The original historic situation against which this message is screened-
Explaining this, in the end, in both the language of sweet dreams and nightmares, allows us to unlock God's powerful message on all of earth's history, our daily lives in the now, and what is still waiting for us. It NOT AT ALL merely carries a message of DOOM and GLOOM, but primarily opens up the riches of Gods mercy to us. Then you see what the glorified Jesus transmits to us: perseveringly live forward in true faith and love, and his glory will also more and more enfold your own heart, until you once walk on the streets of gold alike glass.
THE AUTHOR; Tiaan Jordaan was an evangelical minister in the Dutch Reformed Church congregation of Escombe, Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa for more than forty years. He studied theology at the University of Pretoria. He lovingly also submit this work as given by Him, to Him.
